Nasal device.



F. W SCHOONMAKERQJR. NASAL DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED MAR.8. 915.

LMRM u. Patented June 22, 1915.

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rnEnEnIcK w. SCHOONMAKEB, an, or ivronrcnnm, NEW JERSEY, assrenon TOscHooNMAKER LABORATORIES, me, or new roan, N. Y., A conrormrronor NEWYORK.

NASAL DEVICE.

Application filed March 8, 1915. Serial No. 12,796.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that T, FREDERICK W.

SGHOONMAKER, Jr., a citizen of the United States, and a resident ofMontclair, 1n the county of Essex and State of'New Jersey, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Nasal Devices, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The object of the invention is to provide tainer, closed.

The device includes a short, comparatively wide tube 1 adapted to enterthe outer end of either nostril, as indicated in Fig. 1. As shown, thistube is of substantially the same internal diameter throughout, that isto say, the passage is preferably not substantially narrowed at thedischarge end. At its rear end it is formed with aconventional head 2,which enables the retention of an elastic rubber bulb 3. In addition itis provided with a short lateral branch 4, which is inclined rearward,that is to say, from the discharge end toward the bulb end, ahd thisbranch is internally screw-threaded, so that it may receive the threadednozzle 5 'of a collapsible container 6. This container or tin tube is ofthe well-known character and when disconnected from the branch 4 isclosed by a screw cap "I.

. To use the device, the cap is removed from the container, and thenozzle of the latter screwed into the branch, as shown in Fig. 2. Thenby gentle pressure on the collapsible container, :1 suitable amount ofthe ointment is forced into the branch 4 and thence into the tube 1,where it may pass into the bulb 3. The tube now being applied to thenostril in'a convenient manner, a sharp pressure on the bulb drives theointment into the nasal passage.

' What I claim as new is:

1. Means for introducing ointment into the nose, comprising a short tubeadapted to enter the nostril, and having a free and unobstructed passagetherethrough, an elastic bulb on the rear end of said tube, a shortlateral branch on the tube having a free and unobstructed passagetherethrough, and a collapsible container for the ointment adaptr ed tobe secured to the free end of said branch, whereby ointment may bepressed from said container through the branch into the tube-and thence,by compression of said bulb, forced into the nostril.

2.- Means for introducing ointment into the nose, comprising, incombination, a collapsible container for the ointment having ascrew-threaded nozzle, a short tube adapt- In testimony whereof I havesigned myname in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

rnrnnn cr W. SOHOONMAKER, JB.

Witnesses: 7

JOHN CAssmY, JAMEs N. TIMMERMANN.

